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Celebrating World Science Day for Peace and Development

World Science Day for Peace and Development is celebrated each year on 10 November. UNESCO is happy to announce that the theme of this year’s World Science Day for Peace and Development focuses on the role of science, 'Towards green societies: equity, inclusiveness, participation'. Everyone is invited to join in the celebration worldwide.

The 2011 Celebration of World Science Day is organized within the context of the Rio+20 Summit and is a tangible example of UNESCO’s efforts in encouraging the agenda of Rio+20 and its commitment to the promotion of 'Green Societies'. The objective of this year’s celebration is to engage people, including the scientific community, on the role of science towards Green Societies.

The following events will mark the Day at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 10 November 2011:

Demonstration of the Global Microscience and Chemistry experiments 10:00-12:00, Open UNESCO, Hall SégurHigh school students will demonstrate the Global Microscience and Chemistry experiments in the Open UNESCO space in the morning. The Global Microscience Experiments Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students as well as university students the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that are veritable mini-laboratories. The Global Chemistry Experiment is a set of experiments developed by IUPAC and UNESCO for pupils of different ages to analyze the quality of water and learn how to treat their local water sources. They were developed in the framework of the International Year of Chemistry 2011.

Launch of the publication LHC (Large Hadron Collider)13:00-13:30, Room IVThis publication richly illustrates the inner workings of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, showing the human dimension to this great scientific enterprise which aims to help us understand the origins of the Universe. An animated version of the text for schools will also be presented. The publication LHC (Large Hadron Collider) was co-published by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Lammerhuber and UNESCO Publishing.